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Does Input-Trade Liberalization Affect Firms'Foreign Technology Choice?
Bas, Maria - 2017
This paper studies the impact of input-trade liberalization on firms' decision to upgrade foreign technology embodied in imported capital goods. The empirical analysis is motivated by a simple theoretical framework of endogenous technology adoption, heterogeneous firms and imported inputs. The...
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Deinstitutionalization and Institutional Replacement : State-Centered and Neo-Liberal Models in the Global Electricity Supply Industry
Henisz, Witold J.; Holburn, Guy L. F.; Zelner, Bennet A. - 2011
We investigate the replacement of the traditional state-centered model of electricity industry organization with a market-oriented neo-liberal model in 83 countries. We argue and find that social actors' ascription of legitimacy to an institutional replacement is central to the replacement's...
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Trade Liberalization and Integration of Domestic Output Markets in Brazil
Reis, Jose Guilherme - 2018
This paper describes how different policy distortions have been impeding better integration of Brazil's external and … promote better allocation of resources across the economy. The main conclusion of the paper is that Brazil could gain … significantly from opening to foreign trade. Yet, for Brazil to take full advantage of the opportunities that external integration …
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Trade Reform and Regional Dynamics : Evidence from 25 Years of Brazilian Matched Employer-Employee Data
Dix-Carneiro, Rafael - 2017
This paper empirically studies the dynamics of labor market adjustment following the Brazilian trade reform of the 1990s. The paper uses variation in industry-speci?c tari? cuts interacted with initial regional industry mix to measure trade-induced local labor demand shocks and examines regional...
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The Gendered Labor Market Impacts of Trade Liberalization : Evidence from Brazil
Gaddis, Isis - 2017
This paper investigates gender differences in the impact of Brazil's trade liberalization on labor market outcomes. To …
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Trade Liberalization, Employment Flows, and Wage Inequality in Brazil
Ferreira, Francisco H. G. - 2016
wage distribution in Brazil during the 1988-95 trade liberalization. Unlike in other Latin American countries, trade …
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Structural Change and Poverty Reduction in Brazil : The Impact of the Doha Round
Bussolo, Maurizio - 2016
connected poverty trends. The main focus of the authors is understanding, for the case of Brazil, how a trade shock interacts …
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Measuring the Impacts of Global Trade Reform with Optimal Aggregators of Distortions
Laborde, David - 2017
Traditional weighted-average measures of trade distortions are widely used in analyzing global and regional reforms, despite well-known deficiencies. This paper develops and applies optimal aggregators for the real-world case of multiple countries and commodities with much more detailed...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012975999
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Human Capital, Trade Liberalization, and Income Risk
Krebs, Tom - 2016
Using data from Mexico, the authors study empirically the link between trade policy and individual income risk and the extent to which this varies across workers of different human capital (education) levels. They use longitudinal income data on workers to estimate time-varying individual income...
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Is Better Information Always Good News? International Corporate Strategy and Regulation
Kitzmuller, Markus - 2017
This paper develops a simple model to analyze the interaction between strategic corporate public good provision, international firm location and national regulation. An information-based strategic corporate public good provision mechanism is proposed to shed light on recent firm behavior within...
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